From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sam Halliday Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: live search of files by substring Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 10:10:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9048b64e-a752-4496-ba31-b2bb1b399d8b@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1398383709 20282 80.91.229.3 (24 Apr 2014 23:55:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 23:55:09 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 25 01:55:02 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WdTTq-00051H-64 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Apr 2014 01:55:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45744 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WdTTp-0004Cr-Sx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Apr 2014 19:55:01 -0400 X-Received: by 10.66.124.168 with SMTP id mj8mr550709pab.29.1398359454786; Thu, 24 Apr 2014 10:10:54 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.46.7 with SMTP id j7mr35458qga.35.1398359454664; Thu, 24 Apr 2014 10:10:54 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!l13no10459659iga.0!news-out.google.com!du2ni15315qab.0!nntp.google.com!cm18no6032499qab.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=83.244.128.25; posting-account=kRukCAoAAAANs-vsVh9dFwo5kp5pwnPz Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.244.128.25 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 17:10:54 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:205091 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97358 Archived-At: Hi all, Many of the IDEs have a "live search" feature of files in a project, I was wondering if Emacs had a similar thing? In many ways, find-name-dired is almost there. Live search basically is the same as find-name-dired except it lists responses as the user types in the query (and does substring matching rather than regex matching). It would be really ideal if such a tool asked for the directory to use based on first use, and then saved that until the user manually updates it. Even better if it respected .gitignore and other VCS ignore rules. Is there something similar to "live search" for Emacs? Best regards, Sam